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Will no-cache server headers affect Google?

         

Block19Row13

9:29 am on May 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



we are having a small problem with our home page. we made some changes back in the last week of april and every now and then the old version appears.

weve been in touch with our e-commerce host and they say that all servers have the latest version of the page.

my browser is set to look for the latest version, and, people outside of our office are getting the same problem.

our ecommcer host put this in the head of our home page.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">

will this cause problems for G caching our page?

thanks

Block19Row13

4:04 pm on May 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



any help on this would be great,

thanks

encyclo

4:27 pm on May 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



If the page is a static HTML page, then the old version could be held in proxy caches - the trouble is that these caches don't examine the contents of the file, only the headers.

The meta elements you suggest may help reduce browser caching but nothing more. So you should add HTTP headers disallowing caching instead - how you do that depends on your server setup.